Archive for the 'Blogroll' Category
Avoiding the suicide slot
By Justin Cooper | October 14, 2007 | Blogroll | no comments yet
Kent’s Bike Blog has an interesting discussion on an aspect of bike safety. The “suicide slot”, according to Kent, is the blind spot of a vehicle that should be avoided by a cyclist.
So I’m trying to plant the meme of the “Suicide Slot” and get more cyclists avoiding the slot. If a bike lane [...]
Traffic lights and bicycles
By Justin Cooper | October 13, 2007 | Blogroll | 1 comment
Cyclelicious has an excellent article on the technical explanation of how traffic lights are triggered and the solutions an engineer (and avid cyclist), Bob Shanteau, has suggested to make them work with cyclists.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed AB 1581 into law, which requires all new traffic actuated signals to detect bicycles and motorcycles after [...]
Relationship tips for the cycling addict
By Justin Cooper | October 12, 2007 | Blogroll | no comments yet
The Seattlepi.com blogger, David Longdon, has created a set of 9 tips for those relationships with the cycling addict (it’s a bit of humor as well, I suppose).
Some of the things on this list of tips is a little far fetched, such as the “No skinny tires. The more rolling resistance the better”, but a [...]
